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Communication Approaches in Applied Agrometeorology

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Farm-level management decisions are mostly determined by the knowledge of the interactions between the environment, the characteristics of crops and animals, technology, socio-economic factors and the institutional context (including agricultural education, government rules, customs, etc.). Among these factors, weather remains the largest source of variability of farm outputs, directly and indirectly. It can be estimated that 20–80% of the inter-annual variability of yields stems from the variability of weather (depending on the level of development), while losses due to pests, diseases and weeds are normally around 15% (Oerke et al. 1994). Post-harvest losses are also of the same order of magnitude.

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  1. Environment, Climate Change, and Bioenergy Division, FAO, Rome, Italy

    R. Gommes, S. Baas, M. Bernardi, S. Jost & S. Ramasamy

  2. Research and Extension Division, FAO, Rome, Italy

    M. Acunzo

  3. OSRO/SUD/620-1/MULFAO/EC, Juba, Sudan

    E. Mukhala

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Gommes, R. et al. (2010). Communication Approaches in Applied Agrometeorology. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_5

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